"Why did you disobey your orders?" Hikaru was not pleased.

"Because, I knew I could win" Keitaro sat on a chair a meter away from Hikaru. The room was dark, with only a ceiling lamp providing light. "What if you died? What if you didn't win? Would we still be here? Would you still be here?" Hikaru sighed. "Because of your actions, the Devil Evangelion has being put out of commission, due to this new part of its body." She approached him. He didn't reply. "And you've being dismissed for the reminder of the month. Understood?" Keitaro just nodded.

Commander Ishi was sat in his office, which was quite big and had a longish desk, a chair for him to sit in and another two chairs on the other side. There was a filing cabinet against one of the walls and a rug on the floor. He was not having a good day. The UN had already given him a call concerning the Devil Eva and its erratic behaviour. He tried his best, but they were now considering 'pulling the plug' on the Eva project and the military will take control of dealing with the Angels. He sighed.

"How did our ancestors control Eva?" he asked himself. Then it struck him, that if they could control the Evangelions, then why are they gone? He pondered this thought for a few minutes. There was a knock at the door. "Come in!" The door opened, and Dr. Toragotchi walked in.

"Sir, I've figured out what's wrong with the Evangelions." she proudly said. "Go on." He sounded interested. "Well I was reviewing the ancient blueprints of the first Evangelions. The most intriguing one, Unit One, was described as the 'Berserker' and couldn't be controlled in the most stressful times. But they still controlled it, using this." She showed him the blueprints of 'Unit One'. "They used restraints on the shoulders." The commander put the blueprint down and looked up. "So we should put shoulder plates on our Evas?" he asked. "Yes. And we should install CL purifiers, so it'll last longer." she finished, the commander stood up, walked up to the window and looked out of it. After a few seconds, he turned back round and replied. "The UN is considering 'pulling the plug' on the Eva project, so I quote." He looked grim. "Well, ask them for another chance, after we install these new restraints, we should have no trouble with the Evas." she said, sounding hysteric. "I'll try, doctor. But I'm not making any promises." He sat back down and picked up the phone. He rang and finally got an answer. "Engineering? This is Commander Ishi. The doctor has something to show you concerning the Evas. She'll be right down." He put the phone back down and turned to the doctor. "You'd better get going, they're waiting." The doctor bowed and left. The commander thought to himself, why did she do something that was so old? He was only thirty- three, and he was still acting like he was sixteen. He looked at his glasses on the table, he hated wearing them, but his wife always told him to wear them, because without them he was 'blind as a bat'. His wife, he missed her so much after she was lost in the Russian Attack of 2006. He put his glasses on and started thinking about her. "Kei."

Dr. Toragotchi sat at her desk, the engineers were building the new shoulder restraints and she had nothing to do. She looked at the picture on her desk. She stood there with a man in his middle ages, he had blonde hair just like her, but he had brown eyes instead of blue. A little girl, who looked about five years old, stood in between them. She had blonde hair and blue eyes, just like she did now. She looked at the man and sighed. "Why did you have to die?" she asked herself. She recalled the horrible event of 2006, the American Attack; the strange thing was that it happened the same time as the Russian Attack. She thought to herself, what was the chance of two nuclear type explosions happening at the same time in two different places of the world? The chances were nearly impossible. But it happened. The Evangelions had being punished for what they had done.

The command centre was quiet, the only sounds heard was Roshi typing and Ichigo eating lunch.

"Hey, Ichigo?"

"Yeah Roshi? What's the matter?"

Roshi stop typing and turned round. "Pass us a beer." Ichigo threw him a beer. He caught it, opened it and started drinking. He sighed "Hmm. Good stuff." He put the beer down on the flat part of the console he was sitting at. He turned round to look at her. "Did you know anyone that was involved in the American or Russian Attack?" he asked, putting his arms around his knees. "Errm, no. Nobody I know. What about you?" she asked back. "Errm, well, me." he said, sounding a bit uneasy. "What!?! Which attack?" she asked, sounding very surprised. "The Russian. I was a technician there, working with Dr Juroroachi." Ichigo interrupted him, "Keitaro's mother? What were you working on?" she asked, her concentration increasing with every passing moment. He looked up. "We were working on the Eva project, but something went wrong. It broke free." He returned to his console. "What broke free Roshi?" asked Ichigo, sounding angry that he stopped in middle of his story. "Look, it's not important, okay?" It wasn't okay with Ichigo, but she voted against arguing.

"Okay, this isn't so bad. A little time off is what I need; I just need to clear my head that's all." Keitaro thought to himself. He lay down on the sofa, with a beer on the coffee table and a magazine in his hand, he wasn't really reading it, just looking blindly at it and turning the pages when it suited him. "This is no fun." He threw the magazine to the floor and sat up. He took a sip of his beer and put it back the table. He grabbed the remote and turned the TV on. Not much was on. Just a soap opera, a cartoon, a documentary about plants and a black and white movie that looked positively boring. He turned off the TV, layback down on the sofa and stared at the ceiling. "Soooo booooorrrrreeeedddd!!!!" he complained to himself in his head. "Nobody around, nothing on the TV, nothing to eat and no Eve." Wait!?! Did he just say 'no Eve'? Did he care about her? Sure, sometimes she was rude, load and annoying, but she seemed like a nice person to him. "Get a hold of yourself Keitaro! She doesn't have feelings for you! But I wish she did."

Adam wasn't bored, he was with Amane, doing a little shopping at the food market.

"Hey Adam, grab that for us." Amane asked Adam. He did what he was told.

"Anything else?" he asked putting the item in the basket. "No. That's it. Let's pay for this and go home." The line wasn't long, but it still felt like it was taking forever to move. Adam thought he heard someone talking about Eva. He turned round to see two women talking.

"I heard that the pilot of that red robot is a crazed psychopath!" said one.

"The pilot of that white one isn't very good, is he?" said the other. Adam turned round to see Amane. She had heard what those women had said. He didn't like people saying bad things about his friends. He walked up to the two women. "Excuse me? Are you talking about the Evangelions?" The two women turned to face him. "That's none of your business, young man." said the one on the left. "I think it is my business actually." he snapped back, "Let me tell you something, the two pilots are good friends of mine. You see her over there? That's the pilot of the white one." The women put on looks of surprise. "But, she's so young!" said one. "Yeah, but still, she does this because she's helping people, she doesn't have to do it, ya'know." He turned on his heel and walked back to Amane. "You didn't have to do that, ya'know?" she said, sounding flattered. "I know. But still, no one talks that way about friends." he said. She smiled.

"So, how are things going on between Keitaro and you?" asked Shizuke to Eve.

"What are you on about?" she asked back. "Come off it Eve, I know you like him." Shizuke replied. "No Shizuke, that's you. You're the one who thinks he's cute." Eve said, with a stare. "I know, but I've just got a boyfriend. So, I can't go out with Keitaro. But you can." she said, with a wink. Eve just gave a 'humph!' and replied, "Yeah right! Besides, he doesn't bother with me, because I'm immune to his charm. Anyway, I think he likes Amane." Shizuke gave a laugh. Eve looked curious. "No, that's your brother who likes Amane." she said, when she finished laughing. "Really? How do you know?" she asked, sounding very curious. Her brunette friend smiled. "I heard him talking to his friends about her, and how much he liked her." She continued walking when she finished. Eve didn't know what to say, which was very rare for her.

The bathroom was quiet as Keitaro laid there in the bath. With nothing to do, he decided to take a bath to calm him down of stress. He hoped nobody would walk in on him, because he had bubbles in the bath, and a guy in a bath with bubbles didn't look right, it looked queer. "Okay, this isn't so bad. I like the flowery smell. Which is okay, because there is nobody in the apartment right now." he thought to himself. He heard the door open. "Oh crap!" he whispered to himself, scrambling out of the bath and grabbing a towel as fast as he could. He drained the bath and put the towel around his waist. "Please me a robber." he said, putting his hands together like if he was praying. He walked around the corridor and almost bumped into Eve, who yelped. "Err, you've got no clothes on." she gasped. "Oh, how perspective you are." he sounded sarcastic. "Well, get some clothes on then!" she snapped back. "Why? Why can't I walk around the apartment butt- naked!?!" he asked, sounding cocky. She looked at him severely and replied, "Because I'll kick you right where it hurts and make sure you never have children!" she shouted, leaning towards him, her legs open like if she was standing her ground firmly, and she was. Keitaro looked quite surprised. "This is the girl you think is nice?" he asked himself. "Err, okay, I'll go get dressed." he sounded reluctant. He walked to his and Adam's room, and closed the door. Eve sighed and gave Keitaro some credit for not making a rude joke involving her.

Keitaro opened his draw and pulled out his favourite red shirt and a pair of underwear. He slipped into them and got out the pair of jeans he'd being wearing the day he got involved in the Eva project, luckily they'd being mended and washed. The Eva project. He hardly knew anything about it. Well, tomorrow was a Sync Test; he'd ask then and get some answers. But in the mean time, it was time to eat; he was so hungry!

Curry with rice was what was to eat this time, except the curry looked more like sludge. "Who cooked today?" asked Adam, looking at the sludge-like curry like if it was alive. "I think it was Eve today." replied Amane, taking a spoonful of rice and putting in her bowl, "I'm just eating the rice. I'm not going anywhere near that stuff." she whispered to Adam. Eve walked into the room and sat down, "Well, are we ready to eat?" she asked, scooping a spoon of curry and rice and putting it in her bowl.

"It tastes like feet!" said Adam, after eating a bit of the curry. He looked at his sister, who looked ready to kill. "I like it!" said Keitaro scoffing another spoon full. Adam, Amane, Hikaru, even Eve, looked at him strange as he scoffed this sludge-like food. He put his bowl down the table and wiped the food remnants away from his mouth. "Is there anymore?" he asked, looking cheerful. "Keitaro, that was the last of it. You ate it all!" explained Amane, who looked stupefied. "Here, you can have mine." said Adam, passing his bowl over to Keitaro. "Yeah!" he cheered and scarfed it down. "Is anyone besides me scared?" asked Hikaru.

The green eyed Japanese boy sat on his bed in the dark. His thoughts were on his mother. The Evangelion was her project and he was to use it to kill. Maybe that was the reason the Evas were made, to kill. The Angels were the target, but he couldn't stop thinking that there was another enemy. A viscous enemy that reminded him of Devil Eva; the teeth, the red skin, that black orb, the way it killed the Angel and mental instability it was causing him. He sighed. He slid of his bed and walked into the bathroom. He stared at himself in the mirror. The strangest thing about his face was his eyes. Both of them had four pupils. They might be birthmarks, but what was the possibility of both his eyes having the same number of pupils? Very small, that's what. Plus they were in the same positions. He opened the medicine cabinet and pulled out a tube of toothpaste, squirted some on his toothbrush and started to brush his teeth. He closed the medicine cabinet and was shocked at what he saw in the mirror, so shocked, he even spat out the used toothpaste onto the mirror. He was looking at himself, except it didn't look like himself. What he was looking at had red skin, no hair, a pair of horns and the same green eyes he had now. He blinked and it was gone, his old self back in the mirror. He took a deep breath to relieve him of the shock he'd just experienced. What was that? Was that him? He decided he was just tired, and it was time for him to sleep, so he cleaned the spat- out toothpaste off the mirror and drank a bit of water from the tap to clear his mouth out. He sighed and walked to his room.

Adam couldn't sleep; so much was going through his mind right now. His new Eva was to ship here next week, was he ready to kill to protect? He had to protect his friends and family. He had to fight the Angels. But did he really have to?

Amane also couldn't sleep. It was that nightmare again. The same one she'd been having since she was a little girl, ever since she'd seen that 'monster' in the mirror.

Keitaro was running, from what he didn't know. He was just running from something. He could hear several footsteps behind him. He turned his head and he was instantly tackled to the ground and pinned down. The next thing he knew he was shouting at the stop of his lungs. "HELP! ASUKA! HELP ME!!" He just screamed, like Amane did when he went over to hers and stayed over. He heard one of the attackers speak, "You know too much Meskar. You need to be gotten rid off."

He woke up and lunged himself forward. He was covered in sweat and he was breathing deeply. He wiped the sweat off his brow and lay back down. He just had the same experience as Amane, except he called out for someone named Asuka, not Shinji, Kaworu or Rei, whoever they were. Why did he just start having this nightmare just after he'd seen that 'thing' in the mirror? He got out of bed and walked to the door. He was about to open it, but then he found himself confronted by Eve. "Did you call for me?" she asked, sounding tired. "What do you mean? It was a nightmare and I called for someone called Asuka." he replied. He wondered why she thought he had called for her. "Really? I heard the name, and I thought you were calling for me." She shrugged when she finished and walked back to her room. Keitaro closed the door and got back into bed. He lay there and thought of ways he could get back to sleep. He finally decided to just close his eyes and just let his body go it's natural course.

School was very uneventful so far. Nothing worth remembering had happened yet. Just a matter of time before anything happened. It started of with Keitaro working at his desk, typing away, when he got a private message from someone. He looked around and saw a brunette haired girl with green eyes, looking in his direction, waving. He read the message; "Are you the pilot of the red robot?" He typed back a message, saying; "Yes, I am." Later on, he was going to regret that.

Break-time is when it happened; people, asking questions about Evangelion, NERV and the Angels, surrounded him. He couldn't take the number of people asking him question he really didn't know, like: "Why are the Angels attacking us?" and "What kinda' weapons does it have?" also " why were you chosen to pilot it? What makes you so special?" Luckily, he was able to escape by sliding through a girl's legs (But not before catching a quick glimpse of her panties.) "Hm. Cotton, good choice." He thought to himself as he ran for his dear life.

"Well, you have nobody to blame but yourself." said Eve, as they walked home. Keitaro had being crowded around a couple of times, chased about three times and asked for autographs and dates more times than he could count. He sighed. "Man, it's tough being a celebrity." he said, sounding like his old arrogant self. Eve swung round to look at him. "Oh get over it! You're not a celebrity!" she assured him, with a serious look on her face. "I know! I could sell t-shirts, with my picture on it. Also maybe ones that have yours, Amane's and Adam's picture on it and it reads underneath: "Friend of Evangelion Pilot." But I think yours won't sell very well." he said, continuing his walking. "Why?" said Eve, through gritted teeth. "Because nobody will want to buy a t-shirt that has a picture on it that looks like something you want to scrape it off your shoe." he said, turning around and smiling.

Warning: Foot to Crotch connection.

Roshi first detected it. "Doctor! There's a strange energy reading on the monitor, it's coming from outside the city." Doctor Toragotchi approached and had a look. "It doesn't match an A-Field. Must be a new creature. Bring up the energy readings from the Russian Attack." A graph bleeped onto the monitor. "Now compare it to the new energy reading." The graphs matched perfectly. "I knew it. It's the same kind of creature from Russia." She turned from the monitor and walked over to Ichigo's monitor. "Get Hikaru on the phone, sound the siren and declare a state of emergency immediately."

Hikaru, however, had no idea any of this was going on. She was sitting at the table, reading the paper. She heard the door open. She walked through to greet the young Eva pilots home. First came Adam and Amane. Then came Eve, who looked very angry, and finally, limping in, his legs touching at the inner thighs, came Keitaro. "What happened to you?" asked Hikaru, looking at him strange. "Eve kicked me." He grunted and sat on the sofa, giving out signs of pain at the same time. Hikaru just shook her and headed to the phone as it began to ring. "Hello? Really? Right now? Okay. I'm bring them both." She put the phone down and turned to Keitaro, "Come on. There's an emergency."

Both Devil and Angel Evangelion were deployed immediately after there were prepared and their respective pilots were ready. "Right so what the hell is this 'new' enemy?" asked Keitaro into his comm. link.

"We have named it the Devil. It's like the Angel, yet, different. Its field name is the D-Field. Be careful out there, we have no idea what we are facing." said the Commander to the two pilots. He then thought to himself, "I hope he doesn't have enough memory to stop him from killing it, considering what he is." He knew that one day, Keitaro would find out what he was and when that happened they'd better be prepared.