Before I begin the next chapter I would like to say a few words on two reviews my first chapter received. In all the insults and stupid comments these two 'anonymous' reviewers only managed to point out that I had given the wrong number to the fourteenth angel. Every single 'fact' they pointed out was wrong in one or more ways. To give an example I never mentioned Kaworu I mentioned Touji. Also, considering the fourteenth angel doesn't activate it's AT field until Rei tries to shove an N-2 mine down it's throat, I would say the UN should feel free to TRY to attack. Especially since the said angel is roughly 99% human. Oh yeah, I guess that means Rei was there to fight as well doesn't it? To the two hippocritic morons who told me to get my facts straight I will say this before I begin: If you are too uneducated to read, you are not cut out for reviewing. I hope all the other readers enjoy this chapter, because I do actually put some thought into my writing.

**You should have read what I wrote when I was still pissed!**

~Naso



"You'd rather eat shit?!"

-Gene Starwind/Outlaw Star-



**I know many ppl have quoted Hilda with her 'dim stars' speech, but this one is used less!**

Chapter 2- Hallucinogens!

Shinji gasped as the angel staggered into view of the two Evas from behind a mountain range. Rei was still underground do to the fact she only had one arm on her Eva at the moment. He heard Asuka say something in German, but he wasn't quiet aware what she had said. She wasn't cursing, because he knew all of those. While for the most part it still resembled the angel of might we all know, and love to see destroyed, there were some minor differences. Zeraul had splits in his armor where most of the drug had landed on it, and the splits were being caused by blue veins pushing through the plating.

The veins seemed to pulse with some kind of energy. It was almost as if the veins pumping the angels blood had decided to become part of it's outer anatomy. It was shuffling it's feet along the ground, and it appeared almost like a zombie from a horror film. Shinji swallowed the lump in his throat, he didn't know what he was supposed to do in this situation.

"Misato what is with this angel?" Shinji asked, and after a short silence Misato answered him. "Shinji the angel has been affected by a narcotic. The Magi believe that the angel is trying to assimilate the drugs. It's armor has been compromised thirty percent, and it's speed has dropped indeterminably from the changes."

"Great Misato, the angel is constipated, but I think baka here wanted to know what you want us to do." Asuka stated. She was answered when a weapons rack rose to the surface with the positron cannon, and rocket launchers. This was a less mobile form of firepower, but much more powerful than the assault rifles both Eva had presently equipped.

"I want you to take advantage of the situation." Misato stated, "Be careful okay?" Asuka's face was claimed by a mischievous grin just then as she realized this might actually be fun for once. She gauged Zeraul's present speed, and guessed she had all the time in the world for target practice.

"Hey Shinji want to see who can take out the S2 core first?" Asuka taunted, and happily noted that Shinji had grabbed the familiar positron cannon.

"Okay, but I get the cannon." Shinji said, and he flashed her a rare smile over her monitor. Shinji grew a backbone, and the angel lost it's own. This is a decent day after all Asuka realized. She picked up the rocket launchers with as much restraint as she could muster, that being none, and fired along with Shinji hitting home on the angel with actual results. Zeraul cringed as the paired fire hit it strongly in the chest, and it fell onto it's back.

Some of it's chest armor cracked even more than it had before, but this wasn't due to a narcotic. Damnit these lillims were NOT being nice in return! Zeraul was going to start the games before it got itself killed, but then it noticed the third Eva wasn't around. Zeraul mentally groaned as it realized it would have to lure up the third Eva. With this in mind Zeraul started playing possum. Those damned lillims had to do everything the hard way.

"No movement from target. I'm going to try and finish it." Asuka stated calmly as her game seemed to be over a little prematurely. She nervously urged her Eva forward towards the downed, and immobile target. Shinji fell in behind her as she advanced on the fallen Zeraul. Her giant red mecha dropped the rocket launchers as she drew her prog knife.

Damn, the shoulder compartment had never made so much noise in her entire time as a pilot. It was the ideal choice for destroying an S2 core though. Shinji stopped to draw a secure bead on Zeraul as he was at a close enough range for his liking, and Asuka piloted her Eva to the back side of the angel. Shinji gripped the controls of his Eva firmly, and focused as best he could on staying calm. They both knew the angel wasn't dead, but it didn't seem to be able to fight at the moment.

When she was ready, and Shinji indicated he had a lock on the S2 core she readied herself to plunge down the knife. She reared back, and brought the knife down at the S2 core.

Just as the colored blade was going to stab into the angel though, Zeraul closed the defensive hatch it had, and shut off the knife's chance at success. Then the folded blades that Zeraul called arms flopped out from it's shoulders onto the ground. Both Evas jumped, and Shinji about pulled the trigger on the positron cannon.

Then he remembered Asuka was right there, and he held fire as long as he could. An entire minute passed and still Zeraul didn't act further. Damn this was a nervous situation. Shinji briefly remembered an American movie he saw one time called 'Independence Day', but he couldn't place why he remembered it now.

"Asuka cut off the panel. Shinji is covering you." Misato ordered coolly through the comm. Line. Asuka got a hold of her nerves before she answered.

"Sure, easy for you to say." Asuka stated, "I'm sure Shinji needs new LCL after that fright though." Misato cursed through the comm., but it wasn't necessary as Asuka was already lowering the prog knife towards the plating blocking access to Zeraul's core.

As she was just about to reach the plating though, one of Zeraul's arms snapped up and took off the arm she had her prog knife in. She screamed bloody murder as the blood from her arm poured out over the angel and even managed to slightly blind Shinji even though he was a good distance away.

Shinji went to fire then, but as his aim focused again after being blocked with the blood of Asuka's Eva the other cloth-like arm snapped out as well. It shattered the positron gun into pieces, and managed to pierce the shoulder of Shinji's Eva. Shinji joined Asuka in her screaming, but unlike her he wasn't done getting damaged.

Zeraul whipped it's arm that had pierced the purple Eva's shoulder, and promptly took off a good portion of the Eva's torso with the shoulder.

Well that sure made Zeraul feel satisfied. Just as this was taking place though a klaxon back at Nerv went off. "Sir Unit 00 has just launched with an N-2 mine!" Maya reported.

"What?! Rei what are you doing?!" Misato asked as the blue hared child's Eva reached the surface. Sure enough Rei had an N-2 mine in her good arm, or her Eva's good arm to be precise.

"I will handle the angel." Rei said flatly as she started now to run at Zeraul. The speed of her massive Eva upset everything in her path as she made a bee-line for the angel. She was just closing the distance when Zeraul started to glow a faint blue. Then it seemed to explode in a blinding flash of white light. The children all screamed as their vision went to a pure white, and they felt the force of the explosion wash over their Evas with a blinding intesity that burned their pupils.

As it hit the Evas the children felt a slight tingle going through their own bodies. When the light faded Zeraul had indeed exploded, but strangely nothing was damaged. Not even the ground it had been on had gotten scarred. Then Misato noticed the Evas. Units 00, 01, and 02 were flat on their backs lined up in a row, and their arms were crossed as if in a casket.

"What the hell?" Misato asked, but then Maya was receiving information from the Magi. "The pilots and Evas are fine. The Magi are reading that all damage done to the Evangelions has been reversed, and that the pilots are in perfect condition." Maya stated. She was a little surprised at what she was reporting, "The angel seemed to detonate, and do nothing."

Knowing not what to do, Misato ordered the Evas to return. Under the advise of Ritsuko the Evas were to be scanned for any foreign elements, and the pilots to spend the evening at the Nerv hospital wing. As the day dragged on into the late evening though, nothing was found. "It's strange isn't it?" Ritsuko said to Misato while Maya tampered with one of the Evas at it's cage. Unit 01 to be exact.

"Ritsuko, everything is strange with the angels." Misato said, "I just feel it DID do something though." Ritsuko nodded.

"I hope just once they aren't going to pull one over on us." Maya added from the purple Eva. As she started to crawl across the head of the unit, obviously done with her job for now, the head of the unit suddenly snapped back. This effectively tossed Maya for a good fifty yards right into the LCL after she had flown over the other two women's heads.

"What the hell?!" Misato shouted as a deafening sound started to come from the Eva. "Ahhhhhhh, Ahhhhhhhhh, Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!" the unit started as it began the largest sneeze in history.

"Oh shit get down!" Misato shouted, but Ritsuko just stood gaping at the large mouth of the Eva which was starting to come undone from it's metallic casing with bangs and grating noises.

"AAACCHHHOOOO!!!" the unit sneezed forcibly as it's head snapped back down. The snot and other odd colored liquids that blew out caught the wall, some of the catwalk, and all of Ritsuko as it went. Misato and Maya went, for the majority, untouched.

Misato stood up as Ritsuko started to tremble in both fear, and horrendous anger. The women was covered in slimy snot, and it coated her hair as well as her cloths completely. "T-that, that, t-th-that." Ritsuko began while shaking and then pulled herself together again, "THAT BITCH!! How dare you sneeze on me you old purple hag!"

Misato looked at Ritsuko curiously as she continued to rant at the giant that, once again, had gone dormant. Meanwhile in the hospital the three pilots sat back in a type of observation room, and watched anime. Shini and Rei had gotten dark, and light blue pajamas while Asuka had a pink set with just a hint of a red hue to it.

"I can't believe I have to watch this crap." Asuka said noticing the lack of well muscled martial artists, and the presence of mobile suits piloted by wimpy teens.

"Sorry Asuka, but they don't have Dragonball, Dragonball Z, or GT." Shinji said, "All I could find was different Gundam series, Bubblegum Crisis, and some Escaflowne thing." Rei looked at the other two then returned her gaze to the television screen. Would Shiro Amada be able to make it as an Eva pilot if he were real? Her thoughts were interrupted as Asuka smacked Shinji in the head with one of the tapes.

"You had Escaflowne and you were playing this CRAP?!" She ranted at him, "Baka! Put in Escaflowne." Shinji turned to Rei, who pretended to not care what was on the television. Hearing no objections he changed tapes, and in a few minutes he felt his stomach turning over as Asuka wowed over a certain blonde hared knight named Allen Schezar.

A few hours later they had watched a good deal of the Escaflowne series when Misato came in, and promptly announced lights out. Asuka made some fuss as she was being forced to share a room with a pervert like Shinji, but she was ignored. The three pilots bedded down, and soon were asleep. This turned out to be where the trouble began.

"It can't be a coincidence they all fell asleep within point six seconds of one another could it?" Maya asked Ritsuko who had also noticed this fact displayed by the Magi.

"It could be a coincidence if not for the fact they have synched brainwaves as well." Ritsuko added, "You had better inform the commanders and Misato." Maya sighed, and got on the phone.

Shinji, Rei, and Asuka meanwhile were all asking the same question as they sat in a blank white void: WHAT ARE YOU DOING IN MY DREAM?!

**Rei said it quietly, Shinji said it a little surprised, and Asuka squawked so loud it was enough to say that they all shouted. Thus everything balances out as them all shouting.**

"So who's world shall we visit first?" a teenage voice asked a little mischievously.

"Excuse me?" Shinji asked, and then the person appeared. It was a boy in loose fitting blue jeans, leather boots, a white shirt, and a blue vest. He had blue spiky hair that was unkempt and short, and the sword draped over his back begged to be noticed. His face was narrow and boyish, but his jaw was set with a firm bone structure.

"I said who's world should we visit first?" He asked again with a little amusement showing through, "Oh! Can I pick?!" The three pilots stared at him in a daze, and Rei blinked twice.

"Shiro Amada?" She asked somewhat skeptically, and the teen face-faulted.

"I don't even look like him!" He shouted as he got up.

"Definitely from an anime though." Asuka noted.

"My name is Graham Siker, and personally I don't like being mistaken for other blue hared people. Maybe you can answer my question now?" Graham asked them.

"Can you specify what you meant?" Rei asked him curtly, and he sighed.

"Oh brother. Naso I WILL get you for this!" Graham said as he shook a fist at the void of white. He ignored the three before him, and spoke. "Sorry, personal problem." He said, "Now where should I begin?"

~Fin.

Well maybe now you are getting the idea? Well I doubt it, but it depends on how perceptive you are! Now the fic will get interesting as the pilots must answer this strangers question. Who's world shall we visit? I wonder what he meant by that? No it's NOT a crossover. Give me a review or two, and I will gladly write more.

BTW- I plan on ONE DAY drawing a picture of the three children watching anime in their pajamas, but if anyone pre-empts me, feel free to send me a picture. I just thought it'd look kawaii!

~Naso