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Well it took a while but here is the latest installment.

Quick Recap: Shinji is in college, Meet new friend, Friend is an artificial Telepath, said friend enlisted Maya to help him set up an experiment to get rid of his telepathic abilities.

I don't own Eva. I make no money from it. I'm too poor to own anything.

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Chapter 5: Change My Mind / Set Up

The switch was flipped and Alex found himself unconscious. When he opened his eyes he didn't find himself in the lab but back at his home in the Rocky Mountains. Of course he wasn't really in the Rockies but in his mind, more specifically this was his dream world. It was different this time though none of the familiar face that he had seen here where here, instead it seemed very empty and lonely, this he didn't like. He stood there for what seemed like ten minutes and maybe it was, as time really didn't matter there, when he felt another's presence there with him. The others presence was very cold and gave Alex a very bad feeling.

"Who are you," Alex asked without turning around to face the presence.

"I think you know", Alex heard his voice say to him. Spinning around Alex found himself facing himself only dressed in all white. "You know black really is my, or should I say our, color isn't it."

"Yea as much as I hate to agree white just doesn't look good on me so why are you wearing it?" Alex asked his other.

"Oh you know the whole good and evil, Yin and Yang thing but I don't think we need hat now do we. After all we are the same person," now both Alexs where wearing black the only thing that told each other apart was the duplicate Alex's smirk.

(Author note: this will denote the original Alex talking while this will denote the duplicate talking.)

"You'd like to think so wouldn't you," Alex said making all of his senses become alert. "Who let you out anyway?"

"Well, you did, in a manner of speaking," Alex said not even blinking. "You see someone in S31 caught wind of what you where doing and decided that they didn't approve. So to make a long story short they sent an agent to modify you little program and let me free with the orders to return to HW, after having a little fun before I go."

Alex stood ready for the conflict he knew was inevitable, "I won't let you hurt my friends you must know that don't you?"

"Only too well I'm afraid that is why you must be dealt with," Alex said not moving. "You se while you've pushed out down all of your violent, psychotic, and evil thoughts they all messed together and you get me," Alex just stood there in shock as Alex continued. "You see Alex I am the embodiment of all you find distasteful in yourself!" With that Alex attacked Alex. The battle that ensued was spectacular to say the least and it left Alex's dreamscape in ruins.

If one was able to see the battle they would have a hard time telling who was winning or losing as both opponents where evenly matched. In what looked like it would be the final blow Alex got behind Alex and prepared to strike him down when he found himself contained with in what seemed to be a plastic sphere. "Ha, got you," Alex said then proceded to toss the sphere out to nowhere. "There now I have control and all you can do is watch," Alex laughed as Alex tried to break out only to have the energy he expended come right back at him, he was needless to say trapped.

Back in the Lab…

"Beep…beep…beep," The indicator light was blinking pulling Maya out of the light nap she was taking and it told her that the upload and configuration had been completed. Maya turned on the comlink to the room.

"You ok Alex did it work?" Maya asked. "Alex? Alex?"

"Huh wha?" Alex said a little groggy

"Did the procedure work? How do you feel?" Maya repeated.

"I feel just fine Dr. Ibuki, and yes it worked better than I could have expected," and with that the entire lab around Dr. Maya Ibuki turned in to the center of chaos. Panels shorted out some exploded. Maya found herself tangled up in wire that seemed to take on a life of their own, some of them where still carrying electrical current and zapped her a few times others where hot to the touch and burned her skin. In the center of all this was the tube that Alex was in, after about a minute of chaos the tube exploded outward violently taking the observation booth's glass with it cutting Maya who was bound by the wires and she passed out. She awoke a few seconds later only to find herself still bound by wires, out of the corner of her eye she saw Alex standing a few feet away.

"Good to see that you didn't stay out for long otherwise you would have been no fun," Alex said turning to face Maya. It was then Maya saw one of the most frightening sites she had ever seen, instead of the dark blue Alex's eyes usually where they where pure white, not even a trace of a pupil. The last thing Maya remembered before she fell unconscious was a flash of pure white light then darkness.

Back at the dorms…

Shinji was tired, but not just any sleepy tired, he was just-stayed-up-54-hrs-strait-studied-and-took-three-exams-wrote-a-computer-program-and-been-beaten-up-by-an-angel tired. But now it was the weekend and Shinji could take a nap now. As he climbed the two flights of stairs to his room he felt as if each foot was as heavy as his Eva was. It was strange, for some reason he found that his thoughts drifted towards his time spent as a pilot. He began to think of how much Asuka had changed and what she used to be like, what would have it been like if Alex had been able to fight the angels with him. Would they have stopped the Third Impact or would it have made no difference? "Oh well it doesn't mater now," he said to himself.

Shinji opened the door to his room and found that his roommate's section of the room looked like a footlocker exploded. A snoring pile of junk told him that his roommate was in fact fast asleep some where underneath and Shinji had every intention on achieving the same state, so with out even taking off his shoes he fell onto his bed asleep before his head hit the pillow.

Now lately Shinji had been having some strange dreams. Oh sure he still had dreams of him and Asuka that only he knew about (or so he thought), these dreams where mainly seemed to be based around Alex and him doing some weird things. These ranged from him killing all his friends (this one woke Shinji up a few nights), to Alex reveling that he was actually an alien writer for a book called The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy and started helping two little white mice take out his brain to get some sort of question out of it (maybe he shouldn't have let Alex talk him into reading that book). Shinji slept for about three hours before he was woken up by another strange dream in where Alex and his father teamed up and took over the world and by the sound of his stomach growling. Getting up he went to the bathroom and then in search of something that would satisfy his growling stomach.

He made his way down to the cafeteria only to find that it was closed. Minorly defeated he decided to indulge himself and go to a restaurant and eat. After a quick review of what places served decent food he decided to go to the Le Bibliothèque. A small brewpub that he and Alex went to once that made some pretty good sandwiches. So Shinji made the five-minute walk to the restaurant

It was a pretty good size crowd for a Friday night but Shinji didn't have any trouble finding a table. He had been sitting there for about 5 min deciding on what to eat when a group of people stepped up behind him.

 "So this is why he wasn't in his room," one of them said. Shinji turned to see Toji, Kensuke, and Hikari standing there. It turned out to be Toji who spoke, "What's up man? Long time no talk or anything."

 "Not much, just taking a break for a bit. Wanna join me?" Shinji asked then added, "My treat." He'd never seen Toji move so fast and have him hold him before; he started to get embarrassed.

 "Toji, sweetie, you never hold me like that," Hikari said pretending to be hurt. Toji quickly let go of his friend letting him drop to the floor.

 "Um…er…I," Toji tried to stammer out.

 "Look likes it's true what they say, a way to Toji's heart is through his stomach," Kensuke said laughing at the other two stooges.

 "Oh be quiet! Lets order I'm hungry," Toji said picking up a menu.

 "When are you not?" said a new voice.

 "When ever I saw you and Shinji kiss I wasn't," Toji said looking up at the new comer.

 "Well in that case," Asuka said and kissed Shinji fully.

 "That's it I'm not hungry now," Toji said putting down his menu. "Hey wait a minute did you two get back together?"

 "No I just wanted to make you lose your appetite," Asuka said then thought, *Baka Shinji is to timid to make a move, maybe that kiss will get him moving.*

 "Shinji…Shinji…Hello, are you awake in there. Aw great Asuka you kissing him over loaded his brain. And he was gonna pay for dinner to," Kensuke said putting down his menu.

The others where to busy trying to revive Shinji they didn't notice Alex walk up. He had left the lab and changed in to something more fitting of his personality. He had decided to go with the cliché bad guy out fit, all black, Black jeans, black shirt, and a dark pair of sunglasses so no one could see his eyes as they had not returned to normal (a side effect he decided to live with if it was permanent). From his room he wandered trying to find other things to play with and had followed Asuka here. As soon as he saw the five friends together he immediately came up with a way for him to have some fun.

"I'll treat tonight if that's all right?" Alex said when he got to the table causing everyone to jump a little, and then proceeded to pick up one of the water glasses and threw it in Shinji's face causing him to return to reality. "Convinced yet Shinji? Any way lets eat I'm hungry."

"Me too," Toji chimed in seeming to have regained his appetite.

They ordered their food and chatted idly until it arrived then picked up where they left off only Toji wasn't participating, as he was busy stuffing his face, the five friends decided to meet the next day and hang out. After about an hour of eating and drinks everyone started to leave.

"Thanks for the meal Alex," Hikari said to Alex as he was waiting for the receipt. "Hey, do you want to join us tomorrow?"

"No I can't I have things to finish up in one of the labs," Alex said. "Actually I was wondering if you could help me. You see I feel like playing matchmaker and Shinji and Asuka are my prime targets. I can see that their obviously still attracted to each other but they're both to proud/shy to admit it. Any way I need yours and the other two "stooges" help to come up with a scheme to get them back together, you game?"

"Sure, I guess," Hikari said hesitantly.

"Great, meet me in lab number 10 tomorrow about tenish ok," Alex said. "I tell Shinji and Asuka to meet you there ok?"

"Sounds good, see you tomorrow," Hikari said then turned to leave with Toji.

Mean while Shinji and Asuka where both coming back from the bathroom at the same time (a side affect of their sync training). The three Tokyo-2 U students walked back to the dorms commenting on classes and such. Alex told Asuka and Shinji that Hikari, Toji, and Kensuke would meet them at Lab number 10 tomorrow instead of the dorms. The finally reached the dorms after a short walk and Asuka walked Shinji to his door and for a moment it looked like they would kiss but Shinji ruined it by simply saying goodnight and entering his room and Asuka went away looking depressed and pissed. Alex on the other hand couldn't sleep, as soon as Shinji and Asuka where gone he left his room and returned to the lab to prepare for the next day.

To Be Continued….

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Well I thought this was gonna be the last chapter but if I did that then it would have ended up being about 10 pages long in MS Word.

How ever the next chapter will have a lot Love, Action etc, etc… I try and get it out soon.

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