Story: Evangelion, The Children of Humanity: Guardian Angel Chapter 4: A New Day Arrives

Disclaimer: I do not in anyway own Evangelion and its characters. All I own are my own characters and the plot. I also don't own G Gundam, or any other Gundam copyrights. And I most defiantly do not own Metallica; I'm just a fan ok? Not making any profits here so don't sue me!

A/N: Here's chapter four. Flame me and I'll block you from ever setting foot in any of my fics again.

The whole house woke up to the smell of breakfast. Every one of the children went to his/her own bathroom in their rooms to wash up and change. They went downstairs to find, to no one's surprise, Shinji and Hikari cooking breakfast. Every one sat down to eat, as it was the beginning of the weekend there was no school. They talked about what to do later and it was this time that George walked into the room. He smiled and said a cheerful good morning. He grabbed a piece of toast from the serving plate and was getting something out of the cabinet in the kitchen. He returned with a glass of champagne and sat down. They all looked at him. Asuka and Shinji were of course thinking about whether George had an alcohol problem like Misato. The others were thinking if he was old enough. But they just stared at him.

He didn't seem to notice, being too caught up in the morning paper. "Hey, um, you guys need me to drop you off anywhere?" he asked without looking up. "I need to head to HQ for a meeting with Dr. Akagi."

"Well, we're planning a group trip to the mall," Shinji said. "But we can go on foot, its not too far."

"Forget it, its on the way, get dressed and meet me at the van." Each of the children went to his/her room to change. George, who was fully dressed since he came in, got another glass of champagne. He let out a sigh 'Dumping them on the first day, not a good beginning.' He thought. Sighing once again, he went to the van parked outside.

The children did not take long, in ten minutes they were on the way and another ten minutes they were at the mall. "Wait." Said George as they were getting out. "Here, have fun today." He handed Hikari 12000 yen to split among themselves.

"Whoa! Thanks man!" Toji said.

"Don't sweat it, have fun and call me if you need anything." George said goodbye and drove off.

The group made their way into the crowed mall. There, they decided on their course of action. "I think I'm gonna look at some new purses with Toji." Said Hikari. Toji blushed, "Um, ok...if you wanna, I guess..."

Then Rei spoke, "I would like to go through the music store's latest selections. I have become interested in the music style know as "Techno." The others looked at her like she had flipped. Rei was confused as to the cause to this strange display.

"Um, Rei? Maybe I could accompany you to the music store, and um... I could show you some of the other types of music." Kensuke suggested.

Rei thought that over for a minute, just when Kensuke was about to crack, she said simply, "That is acceptable."

"Way to go Ken-man!" Toji exclaimed, putting Kensuke in a headlock. "Didn't know you had it in you to actually talk to another girl!"

Hikari chose this moment to pull Toji off Kensuke by his ear. "OW! Ow! Ow! Ow! OK! I'm sorry! Please let go!" Toji screamed.

Asuka looked at Toji with a look of pity, "Stooge..." she mumbled under her breath, shaking her head. She then turned to her first roommate, Shinji. "Well Third, right now I'm giving you the honor of going shopping with the great Asuka Langley Sohryu."

"Oh that's a great honor..." Shinji said sarcastically, but in a barely hearable voice.

"What was that Third Child?" Asuka asked in a menacing tone.

"Yes ma'am..." Shinji said in a louder voice.

"Good, that's settled." Asuka said. Hikari gave each person 2000 yen and the pairs headed off on their own.

Meanwhile...at Nerv

"So, doctor, good to see you." Said George, stepping into her office. Ritsuko Akagi did not look up from her terminal.

"Yes, you are just in time. Please remove your coat and shirt and get on the table. I'll be with you in a second." Akagi said without looking.

George did as he was told. The doctor finished whatever she was doing in about five minutes and went to the table.

"So, how are you feeling this time? Any changes?" she asked while getting a needle ready.

"No, I'm feeling a little lightheaded though." Answered George.

"Hmmm...we'll see what this test tells us." She poked the needle into his arm and drew some blood. She then ejected the sample into a tube and then the tube was placed into a large machine by the computer. "Well, I don't see anything unusual, have you been getting enough sleep?" she asked while looking at the screen of her computer.

"Oh around five to six hours average. Its nothing big, I just need a little champagne and I'm good." He said.

"That's not a good idea. Your brain works a little differently than a normal human's and lack of sleep can be very harmful, you need at least eight hours of sleep. Otherwise you'll start to feel dizzy and experience nausea." Akagi scolded.

"I'll do that, are we done with my exam?" George asked.

"Yes, now we just need another test with your Eva." Akagi said.

"What's wrong with it?" George put his shirt and coat on, then came behind the doctor to look at the computer screen.

"It seems the right arm's blade is having trouble retracting. It may be the hydraulics, I'm not sure..." she said, continuing to press different buttons on the keyboard every once in a while. "I also want to double check the 360 degree free motion entry plug to make sure the settings are calibrated correctly."

(A/N: Ok, for those of you who've seen G Gundam, you should know what I'm talking about. Only thing is, a plug suit is more stylish looking!)

"You've never seen this design before, have you?" ask George.

"No, all Evas were to use a standard two control stick and pedals. The rest is done by the pilot's focus via their synch clips. Yours however, is a system that is designed to mimic the pilot's movements. This is a design that is effective only when the pilots has good physical strength and agility and have a fairly high synch ratio. Of course, you fit the description." Ritsuko said.

"At least you know that you're dealing with." He looked out the window to the hanger bay. There, his Eva Unit Ultimate was staring back at him. It looked very much like Unit 01, that's because the original plans for the Test Type Evangelion were sent to America in hopes of creating the ultimate Eva unit. They changed the cockpit, added armor and one side blade on each arm, they also took out part of the armor on the upper thighs to make room for a gun holster on each thigh. And like the pilot, it has two Eva sized Ingram's. The head was the same design, only the armor on it looked different. The horn split into two ends at the end and resembled a two pronged fork, the piece of armor surrounding the head was longer and two short antennas stuck out of the back of the head. Then they gave it a black and dark blue paint job. Lastly, his Eva was the first to incorporate an S2 Engine, it was to pioneer the development of the American Base's next project. Since it had an unlimited power supply, in the place where other Evas had a power socket for the cable, it had a thruster for short flights. Sadly, the base in America had no idea about the Human Personality Brainwave System or 'soul' of the Eva that gives it life. George had simply used his own soul to link with it as both he, and Eva were of Adam, thus he was given Unit-U.

"You better get into your plug suit, you're gonna be in there for a while." Said Akagi, snapping him back to reality.

"Of course." He headed towards the locker room. He stopped at the door. "And if the kids call, patch it through to the com-link in my Eva."

"Don't worry, I'll remember." Said the doctor picking up her coffee and taking a sip. He nodded, and then left.

Back at the mall...

"Asuka! Are you done yet?" Shinji yelled through the dressing room door. Asuka had dragged him through almost every clothing store in the mall and was currently trying out around twenty outfits at a Gap store (do they have those in Japan?).

"NO! DON'T RUSH ME!" Asuka yelled even louder. "AND DON'T EVEN THINK ABOUT PEEKING AT MY NAKED BODY, OR YOU'LL WISH YOU WERE FACING ALL SEVENTEEN ANGLES INSTEAD!" with that a shoe flew from inside the little cubicle Asuka was in and over the space between the door and the ceiling and landed right on top of Shinji's head.

"Ow! I didn't do anything!" Shinji cried.

"That's for the thought! So I'm warning you, you perverted hentai!" Asuka yelled.

"Crazy bitch...worst than a slave driver..." Shinji mumbled. "Why me? I hate God, I hope he chokes from laughing at what he's done to my life." Shinji resumed his seat on the bench outside the dressing room and continued to curse his life, luck, fate, his father and of course, God.

Inside, Asuka is thinking to herself 'Damn pervert! Always the same with males!' then another thought hits her 'except him, he's lived with me for sometime now, and he always kept to himself. I was always the one to bring it up, even when there's a locked door between us. Maybe I'm too hard on him? He has become a little less wimpy since that night, but not a lot. I need to whip him into shape, yeah, that's it!' Asuka was thinking all this without moving. Shinji noticed the lack of sound despite his silent ranting and became concerned.

Risking another rebuke, he asked from his place on the bench, "Asuka? Are you all right?"

"Yeah, I'm fine. Don't worry." Asuka answered in a voice less loud then she would normally use.

Shinji was confused now 'Wasn't she threatening me not two minutes ago?'

Asuka finally came out and she handed the outfits she had decided on to Shinji. "Carry these for me, would you?"

Shinji stared at her, 'She's asking me to do something, not ordering? Was this the Asuka he knew?'

She notices him staring at her. 'Crap, think of something...' "Um...what are you staring at baka!? I said carry my stuff!" she smacked him on the back of the head, though considerably lighter than usual.

'Oh well, at least she's back...I was thinking for a minute...but this is Asuka, she'd never...' Shinji thought and humbly followed the Second Child to the cash register.

"Oh crap!" She exclaimed.

"What?" Shinji asked from behind the pile he was carrying.

"I don't think I have enough money for all of it." She said looking into her purse.

"Oh is that it? You can have the 2000yen George gave me, I don't need it anyway."

She looked up at him from her rummaging. "Are you sure Shinji?" she asked, surprised that he would do that for her when all she ever do for him is give him a good deal of pain.

"I'm sure Asuka, here take it." He smiled and reached into his pockets and handed Asuka the money then he proceeded to the checkout line. She stood there, feeling remorse for the things she's done to him in the past for absolutely no reason except to satisfy her pride and ego. She got in line with him.

"Thank you Shinji."

"No problem Asuka."

"Toji, what do you think of this one?" Hikari asked.

Poor Toji was almost in the same situation as his friend Shinji, but Hikari was not as brutal as Asuka, and she was not trying out clothes. She was trying out purses, this is a good thing as Toji is a lot more perverted than Shinji and unlike Shinji, would probably have succumbed to his urges to peek at a changing Hikari. Though softer than her best friend, Hikari still was not THAT forgiving and would have caused Toji some major pain.

"Uh, it looks great on you!" said Toji nodding his head in what he thinks is an approving fashion.

Hikari looked annoyed, "That was the same reaction you gave me for everyone of them. Are you trying to be funny? I'm not laughing."

Toji started to sweat, then, displaying a moment of brilliance that no one who knew him would have thought possible, he replied "Uh, its that you look so beautiful! These purses are plain, but your beauty makes anything else on you look good!" Toji grinned, hoping he had said the right thing.

He had no doubt that, indeed it was the right thing when she blushed and bent down to kiss him on the cheek, "Thank you, Toji-kun, you're so sweet." Toji suffered a massive nosebleed right there, but thankfully, none got on Hikari, or the purses.

In another part of the mall, Rei and Kensuke were enjoying going through the large music selection, and each other's company.

"Hey Rei! Do you want to try some Heavy Metal music?"

She looked at the CD Kensuke was holding "Metallica: Master of Puppets? I have heard 'Metal' from both Asuka and George's room, George prefers Metallica but Asuka likes AC/DC more. It is too loud for me, I prefer something softer, but with a good rhythm."

Rei returned to the shelves to continue her search, Kensuke is wondering what Rei would like. Then it hits him, he goes to the section that has no people looking through the CDs there and pulls out something.

He goes back to Rei and ask her, "What about Classical?" Rei looked again at Kensuke's hand, in it was "Beethoven's Greatest Hits." She took it from Kensuke's hand and examined it closely, after a while she nodded.

"I will try this, it seems more soothing than techno." With that she head for the register. When she had paid for her CD, she and Kensuke left together. "Aida-san..." she began

"Please, call me Kensuke." He smiled.

She nodded, "Kensuke, thank you for accompanying me..." she blushed. Kensuke had no idea just how confused this girl's feelings were at the moment.

"It's nothing, we both had fun today! You want to call the others for lunch?" Rei nodded.

The group gathered at the food court and had lunch together, and to talk about what they did. Everyone except Toji himself and Rei laughed at his tale. Then they called George at five to get a ride back to the house.

George was finishing up his tests, the plug was in perfect shape and the arm blade only needed a little recalibrating. A ringing noise filled the cockpit of his Eva as he was about to exit. Luckily, the LCL had already been flushed. He pressed a button on the wall and answered the call using the com-link, "Yes?" a moment as he listened to Asuka. "All right, I've just finished, I be there in twenty minutes." He ended the call and headed to the locker to shower and change. He went to the parking garage to get the van and went to pick the kids up.

That night was pretty uneventful. During dinner, George and Asuka got into a heated discussion regarding music with Shinji and Rei. Toji and Hikari were trying to kill Kensuke, who somehow had a photo of them together and had planed to use it as blackmail. They all showered and went to bed feeling that living together in that house wasn't that bad. George performed his usual security checks and turned in for the night.

A/N: Chapter 4, phew! This is hard, at least I'm not getting writer's block. Next Chapter: Enter The Twelfth Angel: Leliel