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I still do not own EVA, Hideaki Anno will not sell it to me or give me any rights, oh well, I can dream at least.

To answer some of the questions, I would love to pair Shinji/Rei, but I kind of can't do that, I don't want to spoil the story so read on if you want to know, it will answer it self at the end of this chapter. Asuka will also appear in this chap.

God I wish I have started from later Episode, way my story is going, Shinji might not befriend Kensuke and Touji Unless I think of something.

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"Another meaningless day." Shinji said out loud. "What's wrong Shinji?" Misato walked up to Shinji, Sitting down beside him. "Nothing is wrong, just little bored of doing same thing every day." Shinji said.

"Do I really have to take sync ratio test every day?" Shinji complained in pitiful voice. "I don't know, you'd have to ask Ritsuko about that, I though you liked piloting Eva." Misato comment. "You get burn out if you eat your favorite food every day, it's the same thing, I can only take so much of coddling."

"Coddling?" Misato asked confused. "Never mind, I'm going home." Shinji stood up, walking into the changing room. "Coddle?" Misato asked her self. "He isn't going around have sex is he?"

Shinji walked out of the changing room to bump into some one. "Oh, sorry bout that." Shinji apologized bowing. When he looked up, Shinji was surprised. "Mother?!" Shinji though out loud. "No, I'm not your mother, I'm not even married yet." blue haired girl said. "Hi, I'm Shinji, and you are?"

"Rei, Ayanami Rei." Rei walked away from Shinji, heading towards the Unit 00 activation test. Shinji decided to follow her. "Your the first child right? well, good luck on your activation test." Shinji said.

Shinji followed Rei into her activation testing facility, looking around finding Ritsuko and Gendo talking about upcoming test. "How's it going?" Shinji asked the two. "We don't know yet, although we have higher chance of success then when you first got on Eva."

"Oh? so we have hundred percent chance of activation. cool." Shinji said smiling. "Your impossible." Ritsuko got back to working on the set up. "You know Shinji, next time when we fight the Angel, Don't use your AT field so freely, I faked my report to Seele telling them it went berserk again, Seele has extensive intelligence network and we don't want them to know you have total control over a demigod."

"You mean Seele has bunch of useless spies that we already know that they are spy that you are keeping your eyes on, and by chance they where out working in other town when that angel attacked." Shinji said smiling. "Sounds about right, I sent most of the spies out on separate job, I didn't think Angel was going to attack that day, lucky us."

"But why hide it?" Shinji asked. "Because I still don't know for sure what they are planning, I can guess but it's still fifty , fifty chance." Shinji put his put his hand on his forehead. "Why can't any thing ever be easy, instead of having hidden agenda, why can't we just save the world and get it over with?"

"It's way of man kind, people with power would always want more power, like money, you don't see any rich people saying, "Damn, I got too much money, here you can have some." most humans are power hungry after all."

"Every thing is set sir! we are ready to begin." Hyuga said. "Begin" Gendo ordered every one. "ya know, why is it that all of our test fail at borderline?" Shinji asked Gendo. ". . . . . . . . . . ." Said Gendo. "I mean, if it fails when we are doing sync check instead of failing during connecting, It wont be so hard for the pilots mind and Eva won't go berserk."

"We know for fact all the other test will be passed, borderline connection is when we are connecting your brain with Eva's body, that is why you feel pain even though it is not your body, your brain makes it real."

Gendo said rearranging his glass. "Dad, you have been watching way too much Matrix." Shinji sighted. "No Shinji, Matrix director copied me." Gendo said. "Riiiiiiight." Shinji said sarcastically.

Shinji looked towards Rei's Eva. "Oh look, she already activated while we where busy talking." Shinji said. "Stupid boy! you made me miss her test!" Gendo slapped Shinji in the back of the head. "My fault!? you are the one who was too busy commenting Morpheus!" Shinji yelled back.

"Stop the test, we will start over." Gendo ordered. "But sir, the test was successful, I don't think we will need another test." Some technician said. Gendo gave him 'the look' "It never hurts to make sure it was not a fluke, besides I did not see the activation."

Suddenly alarm rang through out NERV. "We'll continue later! Every one to Battle stage one!" Gendo said walking towards command center. Few minutes later Shinji had his Eva at the lift. "I'm ready to go!"

"Launch Unit 01" Misato commended, as soon as the Eva launched, Magi, the NERVE super computer detected high level of energy gathering above NERV. "Oh no." Ritsuko though. Soon as the Eva arrived on land, it was shot by high energy beam.

"Retrieve the Eva NOW!" Misato commend, "Take care of the rest for me!" she said running towards retrieved Eva. "Where is he? Is he ok?" Misato asked the neared Medic. "I'm sorry, Misato, we tried every thing but your are too late, Shinji is no longer with us."

"No, Noooo." Misato said breaking out in tear watching Gendo calmly talking to Rei. She rushed up to him and grabbed him by his shirt. "How could you, How can you so calmly talk to Rei when your son is dead!" Misato screamed.

"Dead? What are you talking about, Shinji's not dead." Gendo said calmly. "What?" Misato asked dumbfounded. "But the medic said he is no longer with us." Misato looked on totally confused. "He went out for lunch even though Medics told him to lay down and rest, they tried really hard to stop him but he left since there is nothing to do until Eva is fixed." Gendo said.

"Oh" Misato said sheepishly in low voice. "Sorry bout that, I miss understood him." She stood there in awkward silence. "Is that all?" Gendo asked. "Yes sir, sorry bout that." Misato bowed and walked away.

'I wonder if she knows she is not wearing a bra or the fact the her shirt is low cut, its not wise to bow when wearing a low cut shirt.'

Misato walked over to Ritsuko who has just entered the Med building. "Ritsuko, can you tell me how Shinji got out of that unscratched?" Misato asked. "Well Magi detected the energy build up before cat reached the surface, so Maya brought the cat back as soon as she could, only armor was lightly damaged."

"You mean I worried for nothing?" Misato asked. "No, it's good that your worrying about Shinji, it's just you went hysterical for nothing." Ritsuko pointed out. "Don't remind me, I don't even know how I'm going to face Commander from now on, hope he isn't too angry."

Three hours later, Ritsuko and Misato went to see commander Ikari. "Sir, We found the way to shoot the angel down. Sniper." Misato said. "What does the Magi say?" Ikari's hand joined forming a bridge that covered his mouth.

"8% sir, it has the highest rate of success then other options." Misato said proudly. "You may proceed." Gendo said. "Thank you sir."

Shinji walked into the NERV HQ, "Hey Misato, did any one figure out how to kill that angel?" Shinji asked. "Yes, we will proceed with operation Snipe in three hours." Misato said. "gee, I wonder what my mission is." Shinji said sarcastically.

"Why, don't you think it's possible?" Misato asked. "It's possible, sniping it out side of it's range of detection, but if it does detect me, I'm screwed." Shinji said. "You don't have to worry about that, Rei will cover for you."

"Rei? but she only activated her Eva only once, I mean, how do we know if it will work again?" Shinji asked. "We really don't, but we can hope for the best, if it does not activate you are on your own."

"Be back, I need to ask Commander something." Shinji walked to ward Gendo's office, "Hey dad, ya busy?" Shinji asked Gendo peaking his head in the office. "No, not yet any way, " Gendo said. "Oh, good, I need to ask ya something about someone." Gendo raised his eyebrow.

"Girl trouble Shinji?" Gendo joked. "Kinda, it's about Rei, why does she look so much like mom?" Shinji asked sitting down on the floor. "Rei is your sister." Gendo said simply. "I had twin sister?" Shinji asked shocked. "no, she is not your twin." Gendo said.

"Oh? then how, she can't be adopted because she looks so much alike and we are both 14 so she can't be born before me or after me because of about 10 month wait. Hm, I know!" Shinji snapped his fingers. "You cheated on mom didn't you!" Shinji yelled, "and I was the result of your adultery!"

Gendo almost face faulted before recovering. "I DID NO SUCH THING!" Gendo screamed. "Rei is but is not your sister, Rei is DNA replica of your mother." Gendo explained. "then why didn't you make her little order?" Shinji asked.

"Well, I though about it, but then it felt like I was cheating on Yui and I didn't want to lose Yui, so I made exact replica of her to be age 14 so she could pilot the Eva and I can be with her."

"You know, I can say that is very romantic but also very sick." Shinji said frowning. "wait, if she is DNA replica why does she have blue hair and red eyes?" Shinji asked. "Well, this little piece can't leave this room, Rei also has DNA of Lilith in her, she is daughter of Yui, Lilith, and I."

"Is that why you don't let Rei pilot Unit 01? because of third impact?" Shinji stood up dusting his pants hoping Gendo would get some chairs for his office. "Err, no, I'm more afraid that Yui might go berserk in anger." Gendo said. "Oh yea, I guess she might be offended if you put her replica to pilot when she told you to make me a pilot.." Shinji scratched back of his head.

"Oh well, I'm going to get ready for the Mission." Shinji said walking out the door. "That was close." Gendo said sliding his chair back. Ritsuko crawled out from under the desk. "Wasn't Rei supposed to be top secret?" She asked. "I wanted him to go away." Gendo explain calmly.

"Here is the plan Shinji, you will sniper while Rei guard you with the shield." Misato explained. "You have higher sync ratio and more control over your Eva."

"Why don't I use the shield and let Rei fire? Won't that be better?" Shinji suggested. "Why would you do that, I mean we need all the edge we can get, we only have one shot you know."

"Well, I figure it would be safer because of AT shield can buy me extra time." Shinji said. "But you won't be able to make extra time that we need to charge up the rifle again." Ritsuko said waling into the room.

"I see, so it's all or nothing." Shinji said seriously. "right."

"This is Shinji, I'm setting up the riffle as we speak." Shinji reported in. "Listen Shinji, it takes about twenty second for it to charge so try not to get detected." Misato warned. "don't worry." Shinji reported. All of the light in entire Japan turned off, giving it's energy source to Riffle. "I would hate to pay for this electricity bill."

"There is sudden build up of Energy from the Angel!" Maya said warning Shinji. "Fire NOW!" Misato yelled. white beam of light flew towards Unit 01 from Angel. Unit 01 tried to get up and jump over the beam, but ended up tripping over its power cable, When the unit fell it dropped the riffle sending it flying towards the angel.

Beam passed right over Unit 01, heating up the back armor a little but otherwise doing no harm, the said Riffle landed right in front of the Angel, it's impact from landing fired off its round piercing the Angels core. "Did we just win by accident?" Ritsuko asked, sweet drop was forming behind her and Misato's head. "I think so, who would of though that we would win by tripping over a power cable?"

None the less, every one congratulated Shinji on another victory, even though it was won by fluke.

Following morning was same as always, Misato sleeping in late and Shinji ended up cooking even though it was her turn. As usual, Misato went for her morning beer while Shinji ate his toast. "Can't you ever eat breakfast like normal people?" Shinji asked.

"Hey, did you know that steam rice with miso soup and Sake is traditional breakfast?" Misato said. "I don't see Miso or Sake any where, all I see is your caned beer."

"Oh, stop complaining. "Misato said. "Any way, are you really coming to school today for that meeting?"

Shinji asked. "Of course I am, I am your guardian after all." Misato said proudly. "I still think it's other way around." Shinji commented. "Well, I'll catch you at School." Shinji grabbed his beg and walked out the door heading for school.

Class was boring as usual, Rei still didn't talk much but it was obvious they got along, she was less cold that was for sure. Loud engine of car got many peoples attention, some rushed to the window just because teacher was bored, others interested in what was happening.

"Wow, a perfect drift!" some one said, down the road, rest sports car could be drifting around the curve, racing into the school parking lot. The car drifted towards the parking lot, taking a sharp crescent turn, lining the car with the parking lot line, successfully parking the car with out flipping or killing any one.

"Wow, what a babe! I wonder who's guarding she is." boy named Toji said to his companion Kensuke. "I don't know, but she sure is a babe!" he said taking out his camcorder and started recording. Misato looked up towards the gathered crowd by the window, presenting them a smile that would turn any straight man's leg into jelly.

Shinji just sighted. 'hope no one finds out that I live with her.' he though, it's not he was ashamed of her, it's just he didn't want the guys to be asking him embarrassing questions. few more parents and guardians dropped by the school for their parent teacher conference, what shocked Shinji was Ritsuko came as Rei's guardian. 'I guess pops is way too busy.'

Next day was going in same pattern, Shinji got back from his morning jog, prepared breakfast for pen pen and him self, Misato's bedroom door opened, revealing Misato, fully dressed in Uniform. Shinji's mouth hung open from shock. 'oh my god, it's end of the world!' he though.

"uh, um, uh, what's going on?" Shinji asked stupidly. "I have go to a meeting as representative of NERV." Misato said maturely. "oh? you mean that robot test they are having?" Shinji asked. "How did you know?" Misato asked, showing little surprise. "I'm coming with you." Shinji said standing up, revealing his pants.

He was not wearing his normal school uniform but instead wore a suit pants. Shinji walked over to the coat hanger and got his suit jacket. "Ready to go?" he asked, putting on his jacket and tie, Shinji wearing suit made him look more mature and more like Kaji when he was young.

"Wait, you can't go, you are to remain at NERV just in case something happens." Misato said. "Rei can handle it." Shinji said, 'No, his not like Kaji, his more like Gendo.' Misato though. "But what if Rei can't handle the Angel alone?"

"Then we are kneed deep in shit aren't we." Shinji commented. "Whether you agree or not, I am going to that meeting, I want to see for my self if Jet alone is really worth the money UN decided to spend." Shinji walked out the door, his eyes where cold dark blue. 'blue? since when is his eyes blue?' Misato though going after Shinji to her roof.

Shinji was already on the copter waiting for Misato, he sit with his arms across his chest, his eyes closed. Misato silently got on and sit next to him, next stop was Ritsuko. Ritsuko was just as surprised to see Shinji all dressed up, more surprised he was going with them.

Ride was long and boring, Misato ended up falling sleep leaning on Shinji's shoulder. After while, Shinji woke Misato up. "We're here." he said in chilly voice. Shinji walked in through the front door, Misato and Ritsuko following behind. "Your old mission has been canceled, Dr. Akagi." Shinji said. "What?" Ritsuko asked.

"Your mission has been canceled, we are only here to observe, nothing more, nothing less." Shinji said sitting down in the reserved NERV seat. Getting one of the waitress to hand him three cup and few bottle of wine and other drinks.

"How did you know?" Ritsuko asked. "That is not important, what is important is, this Jet alone succeed in it's activation." Shinji said, staring at the rep of Jet alone project. "Why? if this project fails, we would get more funding." Ritsuko whispered into Shinji's ear.

"We already have gotten a raise, further more, Eva series 5 - 13 is being created all over the world however." Shinji stopped. "However?" Ritsuko asked. "I do not think Seele will hand the Eva over to us, they do have separate agenda after all, like you know." Shinji whispered back.

Misato stared at Shinji and Ritsuko, feeling left out. "You two aren't talking about me are you?" she asked. "Yea, we were just talking about how wild in bed you are." Shinji said in low voice. Misato almost burst her tops and remembered they where at a testing site of jet alone with other representations.

Shinji and Ritsuko snickered. Misato pouted staring at the duo. mouthing out "your so mean." Shinji and Ritsuko where having hard time not laughing, Misato's pouting with her expression was priceless. Some guy came over and spoke to the group.

"Why hello it is honor to have met the famous Dr. Akagi and Major Katsuragi but, I believe I do not recognize you." he said looking down at Shinji his voice was mocking. Shinji gave him Gendo's signature look that scare the atom out of the man. "Ikari, Lieutenant General of the U.N army." Shinji said, his voice was so cold it could freeze his wine.

"Ikari?" The man said surprised. "Ah, yes, you must be the third child, Legendary pilot, son of commander Ikari Gendo, but you being Lieutenant General of U.N army is news to me., oh, where are my manners, I am" Shinji interrupted him.

"Major Samuel of U.N army." Shinji said. "you server under Colonel James for three years until I demoted you for your offence." Shinji looked directly into the man. "So, you really do work for UN, isn't that great, we have Commander Ikari who is above the law, and Lieutenant General Ikari, almost highest rank in UN."

"Is there a problem here?" Some one asked from behind Samuel. "what do you want?" Samuel turned around annoyed, taking a good look at the guy behind him, he apologized for his rudeness and excused him self hurriedly.

"Long time no see." Blond hair man said to Shinji. "It's been a while." Shinji replied politely, his voice back to normal. "allow me to introduce Ken Masters, General of US and UN army and air force."

"It's my pleasure of having met such beautiful woman." Ken said to the two ladies of the table. "Nice to meet you" Misato said. "I heard that you where guardian of Shinji."

"Ah, that would be my father, I'm just his partner in crime." Ken said giving her his nicest smile. "What are you doing here?" Shinji asked. "I'm here to see you and see your competitor." Ken said sitting down between Shinji and Misato.

"US is not really happy for all of their beget being spited between NERV and Jet alone project." Ken said. "We also have Eva Unit 04 completed, ready for it's first activation test." Ken said. "but, instead of doing that, we are sending it to Japanese blanch of NERV, after all, you guys had two impossible success already."

"Why thank you for the comment, Mr. Ken." Ritsuko said. "I'm glad to here that you will be leaving it to the experts. although, I do not think it would be possible at the moment to activate another Eva. "

"Ah, yes, you are receiving German Eva also, I heard that that has already been completed and Pilot is pretty capable of handling the machine."

Manager of the Jet alone project stood up, tapping his glass with his spoon. "May I have you attention please, we will soon be starting our activation test. but first we will be answering some of your questions."

Ritsuko raised her hands getting the man's attention. "Ah, yes, the famous Dr. Ritsuko Akagi, it is an pleasure having you here."

"The unit is equipped with internal nuclear reactor is this collect?" Ritsuko asked "collect, this is our most distinguishing feature, granting continuous activate of 130 days." the man said. "I see, but isn't is rather risky to have nuclear reactor in land based weapon that is land based combat?"

"Yes, but it is more probable then having a weapon that won't work more then five minutes." he argued

"But, incase of emergency there will be problem with manual control."

"I think it is much safer then a weapon that goes berserk in middle of battle insane, like a hysterical women, totally out of control." man mocked "our Tec knowledge will be able to control it."

"are you saying human courage and." Shinji stood up and interrupted the man. "We already have the Eva under control." Shinji said, cutting all argument. "But this conversation amuse me, why don't we test out your theory, your walking nuclear bomb against my five minute Eva."

"Here are my terms, next angel attack, NERV will not act, I will hand over that responsibility to you, unless you get on all four and beg like a bitch you are." Shinji said, walking out. Misato and Ritsuko followed closely behind him.

"Don't you think you went too far?" Misato asked Shinji. "No, I will not pilot during next angel attack, let him deal with it." Shinji said with cold smile. "But, what if he succeeds?" Misato asked. "He won't, only god can kill a god." Shinji said, getting on the Helicopter. Ritsuko fully understood what Shinji meant. Only divine being could harm divine being, only certain weapon can harm tank, it is impossible to destroy tank with just 9mm pistol.

Angel where the same way, only Angel or god could go head to head with Angel. "What do you mean only god could kill a god?" Misato asked. "Do you remember war with Iraq 15 years ago?" Ritsuko asked. "Yea, US, won that war easily with fewest casualties for a war."

"It's like that, only super power country could stand against super power country, Think of Eva and Angel as US and Jet alone as a Iraq." Ritsuko tried to explain. "I see." Misato said, getting the wrong meaning of the phrase.

"But won't we have to act if Jet alone gets destroyed?" Misato asked. "Yes, how ever, this will show the world what their only hope of survival is Eva, it is little cruel but end result is, we will have Jet alone's funding and others won't oppose us too much."

"You see Misato, most Human's are stubborn, they don't listens to words or believe anything that they can not see or explain scientifically, some even doubt existence of god, others just don't believe in any religion but believe there is a god. Unless we prove to the world that Eva is only being that is capable of killing Angel, other stupid idiots will come along and try to create another giant Robot, wasting our resource."

"But jet alone is only in it's testing stage." Misato said. "So was unit 01 when I pilot it." Shinji countered. "But they didn't agree to your challenge." Misato pointed out. "That does not really matter, I will not pilot Unit 01, nor will Rei." Shinji said, ending the conversation.

Week went by with out any angel's attack. Now it was general knowledge of existence of Jet alone, it was even aired in News that Jet alone is now ready for combat and the unedited version of What Shinji declared.

"Hey Shinji, we are going to pick up Asuka at the air port, would you like to come with me?" Misato asked. Asuka's original plan of coming by sea was canceled due to it's long voyage, so, they used Eva transporter to pick up the Eva, and sent Asuka through normal air line. "Not really, I'll see you later." Shinji walked out the door.

'Another pilot, I wonder if she even knows what she is piloting.' Shinji though as he raced down the street on his bike. 'I just hope I can survive through the rest, even with my mother's help, what I'm aiming for has success rate of 0.000,000,000,1% chance according to Magi. heh, same percentage as Unit 01's first activation.'

At the air port hour later, Asuka walked out in all her glory, Kaji right behind her dragging his and her suit case. "Hello Misato how have you been?" Red head greeted. "goodness, you have grown haven't you?" "uh huh, and my figure have filled out as well."

"It's been a while." Kaji walked up to Misato. "Not long enough." Misato stated. "You still haven't forgiven me?" Kaji commented. "Let's go." Misato said turning around walking out of the air port.

"What's the big deal with Third child any way?" Asuka commented. "Stating something like that."

"I want to know also." Misato said. "He is the only person on NERV with enough guts to do anything he wishes." Misato started her car. "You mean, enough power to do as wish." Kaji said smiling.

"Yea, but since we now have unit 00 and unit 02, I think his influence will be lessen. he won't be as important as before." Misato claimed. "I wouldn't bet on it." Kaji whispered to him self, but Asuka heard him.

'What's so important about third child any way? so what if he beat the angel two times by luck and freak accident' Asuka though. Said Shinji was heading towards the NERV as fastest his Bike could allow.

Siren rang through out the City, alerting Every one of new found angel. Shinji went to the command center to observe. "It is time." Shinji said, sitting down on a empty chair, staring at the giant screen. "Aren't you going to get ready for the battle?" Hyuga asked.

"Didn't you see the news? I will not pilot until they beg." Shinji said, leaning back on the chair putting his feet on the table. He took out a bag of popcorn from his bag and start munching as Gendo came in.

"So you really will go though your words." Gendo said as he sit next to Shinji taking some of his popcorn. "Yea, world does not need to waste its valuable resource on junk like that, and I will prove it."

On screen was Jet alone, equipped with long and short range weapon, waiting for Angel to come out of the water. few minutes later, giant fish looking angel floated out of the water, flying straight towards Jet alone.

Jet alone took out it's long machine gun and started firing. switching to it's short range knife when angel closed in. Jet alone charged towards the Angel running at surprising speed. Said angel waited calmly until Jet alone was near enough, it opened it's gigantic mouth and ate it whole. Acid inside the Angel started to melt Jet alone, damaging it's internal structure causing the nuclear reactor to chain react, thank fully, it was inside the angel when it happened so radiation did not reach out side.

Angel was lightly damaged, enough to make it stop walking and regenerate it self. "It took nuclear bomb just to slow it down for three minutes." Shinji said.

"Pathetic, less then two minutes, even worse Angel looked bored." Gendo commented. "Yea, what a waste of metal." Shinji said, he still didn't move out of his chair. "Aren't you going to get ready?" Hyuga asked Shinji, Angel was currently floating towards the old Tokyo, Jet alone's command center.

"Did they begged yet?" Shinji asked. "No, but don't you think that is cruel?" Hyuga asked. "No, They are the one who thinks they know all, they are the one who challenged NERV trying to bring us down, they are the one who" Hyuga interrupted him. "All right, I get the point, they started it, you'll end it right?" Hyuga asked.

Shinji stared at the Screen, looking it intently. This caught every one's attention, they followed his example to see Red Eva, fighting against the Angel, using a spear. "Impressive skills." Shinji commented. "but she in non the less, she is messing up the dramatic victory."

"It seems like we won't be receiving any apology." Gendo said smirking. Red Eva twirled it's spear, dashing in disabling the AT field and Piercing the core of Angel. Angels body turn ridged and stopped moving.

"2nd child is good, but she lacks style, not to mention her little victory made us look bad in front of the world, now they will think we don't have enough back bone to follow through our words." Shinji said.

"You mean, your words." Gendo commented. "We can't turn the time, so it is too late, we will just have to come up with suitable excuse to tell the people why we fought the angel when they did not apology."

"What's the big deal any way? we beat the angel didn't we?" Hyuga asked. "This is how it works, I proved one of my points to the word, only EVA can beat the angel, so I am kind of satisfied. However, Jet alone's people did not apologized yet, there for, they will argue that they would of sent different unit or did something else to beat the angel blaming us for intervening.

"Or they will argue that Jet alone damaged the Angel their for, it was easy for EVA to take care of it" Gendo commented. "I see, that was why you where waiting for their word of apology or them giving up."

"Correct, it seems U.N might waste more of it's money for Jet alone 2 project." Ritsuko commented walking in. I still think we should of went ahead with the first plan." She looked at Shinji. "lets not worry about spilled water, get a fresh one instead."

"But it is always the spilt water that you trip over later." Ritsuko replied. "Then, let us hope it dries out before some one trip." Shinji said walking out the door. "He changed ever since he went to the Jet Alone project." Ritsuko said to Gendo.

"I have noticed, he has yet to visit unit 01 since his return from that project." Gendo said in his thinking posture. "You know as well as I, that if you want to find him, go to Unit 01." Gendo stood up from his chair. "Some thing is going on, keep an eye on him." Gendo said, going back to his office.

Misato and Asuka was unpacking her belonging in her spare room, "So, where is the legendary third child?" She asked, "I don't know, it's really weird, he kind of disappeared on me." Misato stood up as her door bell rang.

"Who is it?" Misato asked, "It's me." Kaji said "could you let me in?" he asked Misato. "You have enough guts to show up at my house again!" Misato said. "I'm here to talk to Shinji." he said. "Well, his not here." Misato snapped back angrily.

The door suddenly swung open revealing Asuka, she grumped on to Kaji. "Are you here to take me on a date?" She asked. "Sorry Asuka, I'm little too busy right now." Kaji replied. "Great, I didn't think you would stoop so low as to go our with fourteen year olds!" She yelled.

"I was her guardian, It was normal for me to take her to mall or movies. don't get the wrong idea." Kaji said. "would you get out of the way" Some one said from behind Kaji.

Kaji turned around to see a young boy with brown hair. "Hello Shinji." Kaji said. "It's been a while." Kaji said holding his hand out. Shinji in turn look at Kaji. "You are still in my way." Shinji said.

Kaji moved out of Shinji's way. "What's wrong with him?" Kaji asked Misato. "I don't know, something is wrong, he would never snap like that." Misato said. "I know that, I served under him for more then two years at U.N. even when he is pissed, he never snapped like that."

"Who the HELL are you!" Asuka screamed at Shinji. Shinji ignore the red head and went into his room. Asuka turned so fast that her hair snapped Misato on the face like a whip. She slammed open the door to see Shinji in his boxer getting ready to go to bed.

"Unless you are willing to sleep with me, get out." Shinji said coldly. Asuka backed off, walking out the door, for some reason, she could not stand his look, his look was so cold she swore it froze her bra.

It has been five days since Asuka came to Japan. Every thing was going normal except one thing, Shinji. for some reason after school, Shinji would come straight home instead of his sync test, it didn't help matters that Shinji always held a cold look 16/5.(for those who don't get 16 / 5, it means sixteen hours a day for five days.)

On Sixth day, Alarm rang through out the city, alerting every one of Angel attack. Asuka rushed over to NERV as fast as she could, while Shinji went unwillingly because of order.

"Activating Evangelion" Ritsuko stated.

"Asuka's sync ratio is 62% it look great." Maya said. "Shinji's Sync ratio is....." Maya stopped talking. "Is it high again?" Ritsuko asked before looking up at the screen. "No, way." Ritsuko said shocked. "14%, it's only 14%" Ritsuko said.

"That is bare minimum." Ritsuko said, "Send them out, we will rely on Asuka, Shinji just cover her." Gendo ordered. Two Eva's launched it, heading towards the Eva transporting plane.

After a short flight, it reached the sea, where angel was coming from. "I'll show you how real pilot fight!" Asuka said to Shinji as she rushed towards the Angel as soon as it appeared. She jumped high into the air, drawing her spear, slashing the Angel in half..

"Ha, that was easy." Asuka stated, the spirited angel took few seconds and regenerated it self, now instead of one, there was two humanoid type Angel. "What the" Asuka said as Angel punched her. then it punched unit 02 in the stomach gabbed it's arm passing it to his other self. Other angel in turn, kicked the incoming Unit 02 and back hand it towards unit 01.

"Great, kung fu, Angel what next terminator?" Asuka said as her angel got in the fighting stance. What surprised her and every one else at NERV was Unit 01 was getting trashed by the two angel, not even able to lay a punch on angel, it looked more like Shinji was not doing any thing.

"What's going on? I though he was supposed to be good!" Asuka yelled to her com link. "He is, I mean, he was." Ritsuko said. The out come of the battle was simple, Unit 01 got trashed while unit 02 fought desperately, but it was over come by the angels.

"What's wrong with you!" Misato screamed at Shinji. "Get off my ass will ya, I don't want to talk about it." Shinji said. "It will take two days to fix the Eva." She said calmly but still had edge on her voice. "We are lucky that it seems to be searching for something, and U.N is willing to keep it busy as long as they can."

"We found out how to beat the angel." Maya said. "how?" Asuka asked. "You have to hit both core at same time." Maya said reading her chart, "with Eva Unit 01 and Unit 02, it should be possible."

"No, it's impossible at current situation." Some one said from behind Shinji. he was a blond hair man, holding his pistol aimed at Shinji's head. "Who are you?" Misato asked drawing her own gun.

"Put your gun down Misato" Gendo said entering the room. "but sir." Misato said, "put it down." Gendo repeated. Misato put her gun back on the holster. "It's been a while Uncle." the man said. "Well, I hope you have answer for aiming your gun at the boy." Gendo said. "Don't you mean reason? and for your son?" Ken asked.

"Now I remember, you where at the Jet alone activation test." Misato said. "No, I meant that boy, he is no son of mine." Gendo said. Ken smirked while every one gasped. "I know Shinji was acting rude but don't you think that is too much?" Misato asked.

Elevator door open, revealing Shinji, he walked over towards Ken with slight limp. "His fake." Shinji said pointing at Shinji. "Misato stared at Shinji and then at Shinji that just arrived. "how?" she said.

"Project Epsilon was failure." Shinji said, Ritsuko understood. "They tried to copy you?" Ritsuko asked. "No, they did copy me." Shinji said pointing at Shinji. "I see, they have the physics right but it's personality is messed up." Misato said.

"I'm the real one, Shinji in his plug suit said, reason my personality is messed up is because I was angry, how would you feel if you get kidnapped and take stick needles in you." he said.

"Your sync ratio is too low." new Shinji said. "That's because they messed with my mind!" other Shinji countered. "then why didn't you say anything to any one that some one stuck you with needle?"

"who would believe me? I was by Misato entire time at the testing site." Shinji with plug suit said. "Then, let our mother chose which of us is real." new Shinji said.

Both Shinji went down to where unit 01is located. Misato was just glad one was wearing a plug suit while other still wore the same suit he wore when he went to the Jet alone test.

NERV guard had their gun trained at both Shinjis.

"Father, you already knew didn't you?" Shinji in suit said. "of course, other one never visited unit 01 once, I knew something was wrong, just not this wrong." Gendo said. "Then why don't you arrest him now?" Shinji with suit said. "because, he made a good argument." Gendo said.

"How do you propose we test?" Shinji with plug suit asked. "If you are really me, then you should be able to move Eva with out getting on it." Shinji with suit said. this shocked every one, even Asuka. "that's impossible, you can't move Eva with out piloting it!" She said. "what the red head said." Shinji with suit countered.

Gendo and Ken smirked. "Arrest the one with the plug suit" Gendo commented, soldiers rushed at the Shinji, only to be thrown back by shoulder throw or kick to the stomach. Ken quickly stepped up, grabbing Shinji's leg while it was still in air, kicking the other leg out , hammering him down to the ground.

Ken put his knee down on Shinji's back, and cuffed him. NERV security picked him up roughly and put restraint on his leg. "How do you know if he is fake?" Misato asked. "look" Gendo and Ken said in mono tone.

Shinji wearing suit walked up to the Eva. To other's surprise, Eva lifted it's hand up for Shinji. Shinji got on the giant hand, hand slowly rose up lifting Shinji up to top of it's head. "That's how Shinji got on top of Unit 01 all the time? I was wondering but I couldn't figure it out." Ritsuko said.

"What? you think I can jump this high?" Shinji asked. "well, you where martial artist so I though you could jump really high, like on TV." Ritsuko said. Shinji chuckled. "I can jump high, just not this high, I can jump about eight feet straight up."

"But how did Eva move with out a power cable of pilot?" Asuka asked. "I can't tell you that, you will have to learn on your own, I'll give you a hint, Eva has mind of it's own, you will have to wake it your self." Shinji said. Asuka just stared at him blankly.

"We have Angel to kill." Shinji said. "Eva's are no where near finished." Ritsuko said. "I see, well then, that gives me time to get to know second child, and practice with her a little bit." Shinji said. Eva's hand slowly let Shinji down to the ground.

"Your back." Rei said entering the room. "It's good to see you again." Rei said hugging Shinji. "You knew?" Ritsuko asked. "other one felt weird." Rei replied. "what are you talking about first child." Asuka asked. "You wouldn't understand." Rei replied.

"Is Unit 00 done with repair?" Shinji asked. "No, armor just arrived today, we didn't have time to fix the Unit 00 yet, we must fix Unit 01 and 02 first since it is faster." Ritsuko said.

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Things I make up about EVA is half way accurate. Watch episode 19 and 20, Eva moved to take in S2 organ there for, it could always move by it self just the steel plate AKA cage was blocking it's will and power, since it took in another S2 plus its own S2 engine, it's has enough power to over come it's cage.

Also in episode 20 when they try to take Shinji out of Eva, they admitted that this happen 10 years ago, 10 years ago the accident they had with Eva was Yui's accident, when Yui became one witht he LCL fluid, also think of the fact that Eva pilot seat is inside Eva's core, this has been revealed when angel took Eva's plate off. So it is safe to assume that Yui's soul became one with the Eva's core, letting Shinji control Eva, remember the Rei and Dummy plug was refused. Also the fact that Shinji thinks about Yui a lot when he is in the Eva and he saw her when he came out of the Eva. By the way, go get a picture of first angel Adam, the out line is same as EVA 01.