Ok, in an attempt to break my writer's block, as well as to, maybe, possibly redeem myself for my NGE/ZOE crossover, I've written this. Technically it's a continuation of my sage. But, I've written it so, although you might need to read (or in some few cases reread) my first parts, it is by no means a crossover. It'll quickly focus on the Eva Pilots, namely Asuka, but it's not in her POV.

FYI, I'm also working on another story, if you can guess who the main focus in that story is, I'll........well......I don't know what I'll do to reward the first person to guess right.

Oh, ya, one more thing, in the end I..........wait I shouldn't tell you people this stuff it'll ruin the surprise.

Oh, one more thing, my 'unofficial' prereader, commented that I'm 'dark and disturbed', if any of you get this idea while you read, don't worry I'm not (behind you with an automatic shot gun pointed at your head). I have no intention of killing anyone (unless you're my 'unofficial' prereader, or unless you REALLY piss me off).

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Now, to the story. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------
Ch. 18: 2 years later.

"It's been 2 years," said Asuka staring up from the hill into space.
"Sense when?" asked Shinji, who was starring up into the sky as well, "It hasn't been that long sense the colony war erupted and the SCM dissolved. Has it?"

They both stared up at the sky, which now had a reddish haze in some parts, from all the debris that was now surrounding the few neutral colonies that where still loyal to Earth.

"No, it's nothing. Nothing important, just thinking aloud."

They watched as a shadow departed from the haze.

"There goes another one," said Shinji, "so, how much longer do you think it'll be till we get caught up in this mess?"
"I don't know. And I don't care. Come on, we should get going, we have another harmonics test."

They both slowly got up, and walked back to the base.

(A/N: I know the answer to Shinji's question. The answer is, not very long. I'd give it 5 mins tops.)

Just as they were entering their plugs, lights began to flash, accompanied by blaring sirens.

"Rei, Asuka, Shinji," Ritsuko said over the loud speaker, "get ready to deploy, it would seem that an attack force is on it's way here."

"Well, that didn't take very long. Why did they have to attack now?" moaned Asuka.
"This would be the most logical time to attack, after all, they have the dark side of the moon to provide cover," Rei stated I her usual monotone drone, as the three hurried into their Evas, which have been equipped with new armor that allows them to fight in space with few restrictions, due to experimentations with Orbital Frame Technologies.

(A/N: Gee, how convenient.)

"Everyone ready?" asked Misato over the COM to the group.
"Yes ma-am," stated Rei.
"Yup," said Asuka cheerfully.
"Yes," said Shinji hesitantly.
"Launch Evas!" order Misato.

With a sudden burst of speed, the Evas were launched up into space.

(A/N: Yes, NERV has powered up their launch tubes a tad, what'd you expect? NERV to be on the moon now? Hey, that's not such a bad idea.........)

"What the heck are those!" shouted Asuka in disgust.

6 wicked dragon like creatures where flying towards them. They seemed to be organic, and they easily destroyed anything that was sent out to stop them.

"It would appear that we are not the only ones experimenting with other technologies," said Fuyutsuki calmly.
"Yes," said Gendo just as calmly, "lets see who did a better job."

As they began to open fire on the dragons, the dragons began to circle them, and easily avoided the fire.

"This is stupid," said Shinji, "how are we supposed to hit them they won't hold still."
"Like this Baka," Asuka said slyly as she disappeared in a flash of light.

Asuka reappeared on top of a dragon, her prog knife out and ready. Asuka quickly stabbed into the dragon creating a shrill of pain from the dragon with each stab until the dragon went limp.

"Hey, that's not fair, you know we don't have Zero Shift," shouted Shinji as he released his mobile laser pods, that quickly corralled a dragon, and shot it to pieces.

The 4 remaining dragons began to run, but one suddenly split in two as the others hit a massive wall of energy, and splattered like bugs on a windshield.

"That was cheap!" shouted Dingo, "you can't use your shield Offensively!"
"Yes I can," shouted Ken, "besides it's only fair! I don't have Zero Shift and a big sword!"

End of Chapter.

Ok, not to bad after putting this story on hold for a while, I've brought back all the character's I'm planning on using from my pervious stories for the time being, so, in the next chapters, the plot can un fold. You know, it's easier writing a story with a plot, than writing a story with out one. It's so easy to get over writer's block.